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Ryan Adams & the Cardinals -- III/IV I hope Postywillow is excited for this. Sounds pretty good so far.

You were missed Dinny. Don't let it happen again. And that goes for the rest of you too!

Congrat Bryan!

What do you know, more pictures of food! La Teresita was a muy bien. Our gold-toothed waitress was quite strong She carried lots of trays containing lots of Cuban food Before After A little fuel shooter Back again to Cigar City for one of many trips to the Tampa beer Mecca Matt the Younger shared some of his treasured liquid black gold Vicki liked the non-beer part of Mecca Once more into the breach. Ella's American Folk Art Cafe for Soul Food Sunday brunch. Thankfully for you, other pics of the food have been posted so here are a few shots of the place and its art. OK, I lied. More food pictures, of a sort. I give you, Mongo Meets Chocolate Bacon! Thanks for the memories everybody. Gene-a-palooza was awesome.

More pics from the wonderful TamJam weekend. Starting off with more food pics from Bern's Steakhouse: Seared Ahi tuna with some stuff Oyster Beignets Blurry Prawns Delmonico Steak with onion strings Our sommelier, Trey Cristy (photo credit Bern's) One of his/our selections Now in the dessert room, awaiting Bananas Foster while enjoying a flight of the Macallan Bern's candid shots. Some of these are dying for subtitles, but I am tired and uninspired so mine are lame. Interrupt Jim again and I am show you what head I control! MD: I asked for Baker's and he brought me Maker's. Nothing ever works out for me. VPI: I'd better check the meet thread to see if anything is going on. Shelly: No fucking way the HD800 sounds as good as the LCD2 out of the BA! Moron. VPI: I'd better check the meet thread again to see if anybody posted pics of this food yet. Which bottle was mine, again? Sure, he finally takes a picture when I'm smiling and that giant hand is the only thing in focus. Moron. I can't haz pichers? This way for the tour of Bern's with our great waiter Cheese cave

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Y'all be crazy!

Nice Knucks. Last year's shot is still my desktop at home.

HC Manhattan in a box. That is hawt!

wut? when?

Rebecca Martin -- When I Was Long Ago

Not sure he brought it to the hospital with him.

HF2 No. 3 by any chance?

I'm so pleased you got yours and that I can admit I opened mine as well! I received the first book last week and opened it not knowing that it was from you. That was this one: Today, I received two more and figured I might as well open them too! [ATTACH=CONFIG]4088[/ATTACH] These are all awesome! I was WWII obsessed for many years when I was younger, and have maintained that fixation to today. As a pre-teen and teen, I built models, studied equipment and battles, and played WWII board games. My favorite game was Avalon Hill's Afrika Korps and Rommel was a particular fascination. I will read both the Rommel and the Viscount Slim (great name!) books with great interest. Now that I am drink-obsessed, the History of the World in Six Glasses will be a fun read and I have actually thought of buying that one several times before. As for the selection I sent you, three of them were consumed in my last great history-reading binge. Pat Barker's trilogy of books on the Great War steered me there because I felt like I knew very little detail about that period. Sassoon is a character in the books along with another poet Wilfred Owen, and I read a bunch of their work and the Fussell book, among others. I haven't read the biography but I think I am going to buy that one for myself as well. It sounded like the best telling of his life. I do hope you enjoy them. Thanks Doug and happy holidays!

Don't sell yourself short, Miguel. We were at lunch until at least 2:30! I just made the mistake of looking back at the food pictures from Ella's and La Teresita and now I really want some fried green tomatoes and puerco asado, with some biscuits and gravy of course.

Condolences Steve and thanks for sharing a bit of your grandfather's life. Very sorry to hear about your accident Jacob. That sounds so awful and you sound so calm in your posts. Hang in there and good luck with surgery. Let us know how we can help during recovery.

Nope. Besides, you were the hung over one last time.

And no gravy either? What kind of chicken-n-waffles do you have there? btw, Ella's in Tampa was fantastic for many things but Roscoe's is still king of chicken-n-waffles.

Cool chair Ric!

At the airport and sad to be leaving. I tried Shelly's LCD2 with the Pico and GS-1 again and thought the combo was pretty good. Quieter room, different music (more mids/vocals) and a newer Macbook Pro but I really did think it sounded better.

Mongo like biscuit gravy!

For Birgir, our own Bake King

I am so disappointed in you. Choosing family over us really hurts.

The dinner crowd left for burgers but Jim, JP and I stayed behind to keep the tubes warmed up and listen a little. OK, mostly we are drinking and still feeling full from the incredible amount of Cuban food we had for lunch. I have been listening to the LCD2 with Shelly's GS-1 and Gene's Schitt Valhalla. It worked on the latter but not the former for me. Also tried the HD800 on the Schitt and Ari's little taro coupled amp with less than 1 gain. It wasn't bad on the Schitt but seemed to lack some body. The Ari amp can power them to a low volume pretty well but with the volume at max.

Sounds pretty decent too.